Your Club needs you 2002

This year’s 11 Person Relay takes place at Drumlanrig Woods near Thornhill in Dumfriesshire on Sunday September 1st. As usual, Roxburgh Reivers will be entering a team and the format is similar to previous years with the legs as follows:

 

Legs Courses on Leg
Leg 1 Tartan (short Green)
Leg 2 Orange Light Green Green
Leg 3 Orange Light Green Green
Leg 4 Orange Light Green Green
Leg 5 Tartan (as Leg 1)

The event is being held the day after the Scottish Orienteering League race at Dalry and the good news for Roxburgh Reivers is that the handicap system introduced last year has been scrapped.

If you would like to put yourself up for selection then please email the team manager John Tullie (John@bowanhill.demon.co.uk) as soon as possible, indicating which leg, if any, you would prefer to run (although John reserves the right totoally ignore this request). You should also include your SI card number if you have one.

Junior Inter-regional Championships

Roxburgh Reivers’ James Tullie played an important part in Scotland’s second place at last weekend’s Junior Inter-Regional Championships. James’ recorded an excellent fifth place against older competition whilst running up a class at the 2002 championships near Kendal, with younger brother Douglas coming in fourth on M14. This, along with several other podium results helped Scotland finish the weekend in second place overall, only a few points behind eventual winners, the North West.

The good performances from Saturday’s Individual event were also replicated on the Sunday during the relays. In the Boys relay, SOA Boys 1, which included James as well as fellow Scotland stars Oleg Cheplin (who won M16 the previous day) and Calum Coombs, finished just 22 seconds behind the North West Orienteering Association’s winning team. This was matched by the girls team, who matched the boys by also finishing in second place.

Full results for the weekend are available from the Lakeland Orienteers Web site.

Scottish Championships successes

The first Scottish Championships to be held since the foot and mouth outbreak proved a success for farmer’s son Douglas Tullie from Teviothead.

Douglas easily won M14A over a tough course near the Falls of Rogie, Strathpeffer. Also tasting victory was Kirstin Maxwell from Jedburgh who won W10B in what was her first major event. Others acheiving pdoium places were Sarah Tullie (3rd on W10A), James Tullie (2nd on M16A), John Tullie (2nd on M45L) and Carol Boyd (3rd on W21S).

Despite Roxburgh Reivers being one of the smallest clubs in Scotland, an excellent turnout of members meant 4 relay teams at the Relay Championships held near Daviot, south of Inverness.

Pride of place went to the inform Tullie family of Douglas, John and James who destroyed the opposition to win the 15km Short Open class. Just missing out on another win was the junior team of Sarah Tullie, Andrew Tullie and Kirstin Maxwell who acheived 2nd against much more experienced competition.

The inaugural Strathspey Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships were also held at Inschriach, near Aviemore on the bank holiday Monday. The map was specially prepared to show the rideability of paths and proved an interesting test of map reading skills whilst riding a bike over rough terrain. Although not cycling very often, John Tullie was the clear winner of the Medium (17km) course. On the same course Jame Tullie was 3rd, Douglas Tullie 19th and Lindsey Knox 20th.

On the Long (25km) course Jim Knox was 13th and on the Short (10km) course Andrew Tullie was 12th.

Full results and splits for both the Scottish Championships and the mountain biking event are available from the Scottish Orienteering Association Website.

Reivers do well in Northern Ireland

The 2002 British Orienteering Championships took place at Magilligan, Northern Ireland at the weekend (May 5 2002). Postponed from last year, following the foot and mouth outbreak that decimated the orienteering season, several Roxburgh Reivers travelled across the Irish Sea and recorded some commendable results.

Once again, the best performance came from Douglas Tullie on the M14A age class. Douglas finished in fourth place, with a time of 44:53 for the 4.8 Kilometre course and just eleven seconds away from a top three placing. Older brother James also had a great run, coming home in sixth place on the M16A age class and second Scot behind Scott Fraser of Edinburg-based Interlopers.

In the seniors, former Southern Reporter editor Douglas Henderson of Riding Mill finished in 15th place on the M50L age class  whilst Carol Boyd completed a quartet of top results for Roxburgh Reivers by coming in seventh on the W21S age class.

Full results and splits are available from the British Championships Website.

Moray 2003 update

Moray 2003 LogoPlans are advancing for next year’s Six Day competition, to be held on the Moray Coast in North East Scotland. It is expected that the brochure and entry form will be available at the Scottish Championships at Rogie, near Inverness (June 1-2). More information is available from the event website, which is almost complete and will feature online entry via credit cards from July. This is being advertised as the preferred way for people to enter.

The Website is at http://www.moray2003.org. Information on the area and booking accommodation can be found on the Aberdeen and Grampian Tourist Board’s Website: http://www.castlesandwhisky.com.

Scottish Championships Relays 2002

Class Leg 1 Leg 2 Leg 3 Conditions
Men’s Open Brown Blue Brown All Male
Women’s Open Blue Green Blue All Female
Medium Open Blue Blue Blue None
Short Open Green Green Green None
Mixed BOF 165+ Green Green Green Total ages must be over 165, must be one female
Mixed BOF 48- Green Light Green Green Total ages must be less than 48 – i.e. all juniors
M/W40- Yellow Orange Yellow Total ages must be less than 40 – i.e. all juniors
Mixed Ad Hoc Green Light Green Orange None

Please indicate if you have a preference for any particular class or colour standard or fellow members you want to run with and John will endeavour to make up teams to suit.

Email: john@bowanhill.demon.co.uk.